Hat-protector



J. MAGUIRE. HAT PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION men use. 16., 1920.

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ATORNE onirao STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HAT-PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

Application filed December 16, 1920. Serial No. 431,088.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MAGUIRE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attlehero, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Protectors of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hats, bonnets or other head covering for women.

The essential objects of my invention are to protect the material of the hat from accidental dcfacement by the insertion of the hat pin; to guide the pin in its passage through the hat wall; to prevent a multiplicity of perforations in the wall by repeated insertion of the pin; and to effect these ends in a device inexpensive to construct and easy to apply to the hat as well as to form an ornament for the hat.

To the above ends primarily my invention consists in such parts and in such combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hat embodying my invention,

Fig. 2, an enlarged section of the same on line 22 of Fig. 1,

Figs. 3, 4 and 5, a side elevation, a front view and a rear view respectively of the guiding member before engagement with the hat.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

6, 7 and 8 represent the brim, side wall and crown of a hat embodying my invention.

The side wall 8 is provided with one or more perforations or holes 9. Each hole is adapted to receive a device now to be described consisting of an exterior plate represented in a general way by reference character 11 and comprising in this instance a circular body portion 12 and an outwardly flaring or inclined peripheral flange 13. The center of the body 12 is provided with a central opening 14 around which the body 12 is inwardly directed to form a slightly rounded conical or flaring mouth portion 15 adapted to receive the shaft portion 16 of a hat pin having the usual head 17.

Spaced from each other at the rear of the member 11 are parallel ductile prongs 19 disposed at right angles to the member 11 having at its inner ends folds 20 adapted to form bearing areas or bases for the prongs. The fiat faces 21 of the bases are engaged with the member 11 by solder at points diametrically opposite opening 14. The un bent prongs 19 are in alinement with the periphery of the hole 14 at diametrical points thereof and the device is applied to the hat by pushing the unbent prongs 19 through the hole 9 to the hat body 7 until the member 11 or the folds 20 abut against the outer face of the wall 7. Thereupon the outer extremities of the prongs 19 are manually bent away from each other outwardly and inwardly to form arms 22 abutting against the inner face of the wall 7.

The described method of attaining the prongs 19 to the member 11 is not exclusive. The number of the described guiding devices is wholly a matter of choice.

To apply a pin the wearer directs the point of the same toward the member 11 if the point contacts with the flange 13 it is guided toward the body 12 of the member and is further assisted in entering the hole 14 by the rounded portion 15 at the mouth of the opening. By this means the face of the hat wall 7 is protected against accidental perforations and the pin is insured of entering the same opening in all repeated uses. In its course through the hole 9 the pin is separated from the material of the hat wall by the parallel portions 19 of the prongs which further assist in guiding the pin shaft 16. t

The member 11 is ornamental and the entire device is capable of facile insertion or removal from the hat body.

I claim 1. In a hat protector, a hat provided with a hole adapted to receive a pin, a guard plate exterior of the hat provided with a central opening registering with the hole, an outwardly inclined peripheral flange upon the plate, and ductile clamping arms extending through the hole and affixed to the plate by means of folds forming bearing bases for the penetrating portions.

2. In a hat protector, a hat provided with a hole, a guard plate exterior of the hat pro vided with an opening, and arms having bases and clamping penetrating portions fast to the plate at opposite sides of the opening comprising portions inolosed in the hole and end portions adapted to overlap the hat, said bases and the clamping end portions being disposed upon opposite sides of the material the said arms being bent upon themselves to of the hat with the bases between said mateform bases, said bases on the arms being fast rial and the guard plate. to the plate adjacent the opening and flared 10 3. In a hat protector; a guard plate proto form a flared entrance into said opening. 5 vided with a central flaring opening, a guide In testimony whereof I have aifixed my flange on the periphery of the plate, flat signature. ductile arms parallel with each other, and JOHN MAGUIRE. 

